BROWNE (SAMUEL), bookseller and printer in London and at the Hague. (1) Fountain, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1639; (2) St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the White Lyon and Ball, 1641-43; (3) Hage. Samuel Browne English bookeseller dwelling in the Achter-Om at the signe of the English Printing Press, 1643-60; (4) At the sign of the Queen's Arms near the little north door of St. Paul's Church, 1661-65. (1638-65.) Took up his freedom June 3rd, 1633. [Arber, iii. 687], his first registered publication being an edition of Herodian's History of Greece in Greek and Latin, entered on February 3rd, 16378. At the outbreak of the Civil War, having strong royalist sympathies, he left the country and settled at the Hague, where he printed and published much royalist literature, including an edition of the Eikon Basilike in 1649, Jeremy Taylor's Martyrdom of King Charles, 1649, and a broadside ballad entitled Chipps of the Old Block, in 1659. [Lutt. Collection, ii. 40.] Returning to England at the Restoration, he settled at the sign of the Queen's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard, and in partnership with a Frenchman named John de l'Ecluse, q.v., issued several French books. He died of the plague in the autumn of 1665, and Smyth, in his Obituary, p. 66, has the following notice of him: "Augt. 1665, Mr. Brown, once a bookseller at ye Hague, who married the daughter of Mr. Nath. Hall of ye Exchequer, died at ye Pest House, ex peste, about this time."
BRUDENELL, or BRUDNELL (JOHN), printer in London; Maiden-Head-Alley, near Newgate, 1660-66. Appears to have succeeded Thomas Brudenell. He was ruined by the Fire of London. [Plomer, Short History, p. 225.]
BRUDENELL or BRUDNELL (THOMAS), printer in London; Newgate Market, 1621-60. Is first heard of as partner with John Beale, in 1621. [Arber, iii. 699-700.] He afterwards set up for himself as a printer in Newgate Market, taking as partner Robert White. A feature of their business was the printing of astrological works, this being one of the few houses in London that stocked astrological signs. They issued a duodecimo edition of the Bible in 1647, and appear to have had an extensive assortment of letter of varying merit, notably two founts of great primer roman and italic used in the latter half of Sprigges' Anglia Rediviva, which they printed in 1647. In 1651 Thomas Brudenell brought an action
